Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 233
he whole width ofthe machine, are allowed to play upon the cloth, so as to impart to it sufficient moisture for causing it toreceive the requisite degree of smoothness preparatory to the starching process, and at the same timeallow the cylinder B to free it from any impurities that may be remaining… … The cylinder B, which is in cast-iron, and hollow, is heated by another iron cylinder heated red hoiThe material of the cylinder C is pasteboard, its axle is of wrought-iron. These three cylinders mustDe perfectly round and parallel. The wheel F forms the communication between E and G, which rest…
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